android-video-player

Best way to play a Video file?

I have a URL for a video file which I need to play using the native Video-player of the handset. I figured using Intent.ACTION_VIEW and setting the URI as Intent data, I am able to achieve the aforementioned on G1 except HTC hero. In case of Hero, I have to explicitly set the class Name in the Intent to start the default Video Player: in...

Android video stream capture for AR

Hi, I would like to be able to capture the video from an android phone camera, and then process this video. Processing involves adding a layer of AR to the live stream. Is this possible on android? Pretty sure it should be. I have looked at the android site [http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/media/index.html] but this seems to...

android: How to play YouTube video on emulator

Could someone help me in 1. is this possible to play video from YouTube on emulator using YouTube video link (like:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1Wgp3mLa_E) ? If not, then why? 2.If yes then how ? I tried to play YouTube video using VideoView but got "Command PLAYER_INIT completed with an error or info PVMFErrCorrupt" message through...

does M4V format file play in android??

i have a url for the video file.the format of that file is itunes M4V. i want to play it in android mobile. is it possible? if not so let me know? and also i cannot play the mp4 file in emulator why? ...

what are the file formats can android video player supports in android?

what are file formats android video player can support in android? and differentiate the video view and video player in android.. i am looking on the tutorils, videos, forums answer, etc. anything related to this... ...

Does android support playlists for video files?

I'm and android beginner, so go easy on me ;-) I'm trying to play a sequence of video files which I'm downloading from a server. The challenge is that I want to have a smooth transition from one file to another. My thought is to have two MediaPlayer instances each preparing and then playing in turn. It is not clear to me if they can bo...

Android custom media controller using vidtry

I want to use a custom media controller in my Android app and therefore looking at the vidtry code (http://github.com/commonsguy/vidtry), especially Player.java: The sample works fine as it comes. But I want the sample to play the fixed video automatically on app startup (so I don't want to enter a URL). I added: @Override public voi...

Strange behaviour with mediaplayer and seekTo

I'm implementing a custom video player because I need custom video controls. I have an app with only one activity, which on startup shall start playing a video right away. Now, the problem I have is: I don't want the video to start from the beginning, but from a later position. Therefore I do a seekTo(16867). Since seekTo is asynchron...

Do Videos on the Web on Android Devices play inline or in an video app?

I want to find out wether Videos on Mobile Websites play inline or in a video application. If they play in an video application: are these applications device specific or is it always the same? Does someone have a link to the look of the controls so that I can build a photoshop preview on how my web video will look on Android? ...